About the Authors

Whitney Pilcher

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

Scott Miles

Affiliation Department of Environmental Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

Song Tang

Affiliation Department of Environmental Toxicology, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, United States of America

Greg Mayer

Affiliation Department of Environmental Toxicology, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, United States of America

Andrew Whitehead

awhitehead@ucdavis.edu

Affiliation Department of Environmental Toxicology, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WP AW. Performed the experiments: WP SM ST GM. Analyzed the data: WP SM ST GM AW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SM GM AW. Wrote the paper: WP ST GM AW.